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The Best Episodes of The Millionaire Season 2

Genre:Drama
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Every episode of The Millionaire Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Millionaire Season 2!

An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who...
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  • The Arthur Darner Story
    9.0/10(12)
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    #1 - The Arthur Darner Story

    Season 2 Episode 21

    Aired 2/15/1956

    A diffident travel agent who dislikes children because his wife died in pregnancy as they were about to take a world trip opts to take the trip with the money and meets a woman that reminds him of his lost wife who changes his life.

    Director: Gerald Mayer

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Steve Carey Story
    8.6/10(11)
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    #2 - The Steve Carey Story

    Season 2 Episode 10

    Aired 11/30/1955

    A boorish bakery truck driver spends some of his money to make over a dowdy coworker and also neighbor to prove the shallowness of their boss from whom the female coworker desires attention as the two avoid their mutual feelings.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Bedelia Buckley Story
    8.5/10(13)
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    #3 - The Bedelia Buckley Story

    Season 2 Episode 27

    Aired 3/28/1956

    A woman placed in a decrepit old women's home at the behest of her daughter-in-law over the woman's permissiveness toward the granddaughter draws accusations of incompetence when she uses her money to elaborately remake the home.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Rita Hanley Story
    8.4/10(13)
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    #4 - The Rita Hanley Story

    Season 2 Episode 25

    Aired 3/14/1956

    A modest, thrifty and handy woman must repay funds embezzled by a domineering, social climbing husband after the man's accidental death to gain custody of the man's daughter who she adores.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Louise Williams Story
    8.3/10(16)
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    #5 - The Louise Williams Story

    Season 2 Episode 32

    Aired 5/2/1956

    The use by a charismatic secretary of her money at the same time a man comes to ready the office to function in absence of the ill boss draws the suspicion of her exceptionally jealous husband to be and endangers the engagement.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Iris Millar Story
    8.2/10(13)
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    #6 - The Iris Millar Story

    Season 2 Episode 4

    Aired 10/19/1955

    A selfish career woman thinks her million will allow her to marry a dedicated young doctor whose attention she has cynically accepted and whose work she has disrespected.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Tom Mead Story
    8.2/10(15)
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    #7 - The Tom Mead Story

    Season 2 Episode 28

    Aired 4/4/1956

    An insurance investigator uses his million to investigate the robbery of a finance company because he has evidence the accused woman for which he has fallen is innocent but the woman is unusually ambiguous about the evidence.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Ed Murdock Story
    8.0/10(9)
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    #8 - The Ed Murdock Story

    Season 2 Episode 31

    Aired 4/25/1956

    Detective Ed Murdock 's wife pleads with him to leave the force after they receive the million but Murdock is determined to bring to justice the man who critically wounded his former partner before he leaves the force.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Jane Costello Story
    7.9/10(11)
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    #9 - The Jane Costello Story

    Season 2 Episode 30

    Aired 4/18/1956

    Jane Costello uses her money to send her daughter away to separate the daughter from her boyfriend because Jane believes they are too young to be so serious but the couple elopes and are caught in the path of a hurricane.

    Director: Alfred E. Green

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Lucky Swanson Story
    7.8/10(9)
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    #10 - The Lucky Swanson Story

    Season 2 Episode 29

    Aired 4/11/1956

    A man receives the million-dollar check returns to a small village in France to repay the kindness that the villagers showed him during the war.

    Director: Alfred E. Green

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Cindy Bowen Story
    7.6/10(8)
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    #11 - The Cindy Bowen Story

    Season 2 Episode 17

    Aired 1/18/1956

    A salesgirl while working as a hospital volunteer alongside society girls draws the romantic interest of the young board chairman and the unbridled envy of one of the society girls.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Victor Volante Story
    7.6/10(10)
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    #12 - The Victor Volante Story

    Season 2 Episode 22

    Aired 2/22/1956

    An aerialist long distraught over the performance death of his wife descends into gambling and irresponsible behavior until transformed by love of the circus owner's sister and love for a boy with an elephant.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Candy Caldwell Story
    7.6/10(10)
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    #13 - The Candy Caldwell Story

    Season 2 Episode 23

    Aired 2/29/1956

    A beautiful model scarred in an automobile accident uses a portion of her money for plastic surgery to restore her looks and then plans revenge on the photographer who was the driver and her beau but shunned her while she was scarred.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Ralph McKnight Story
    7.4/10(15)
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    #14 - The Ralph McKnight Story

    Season 2 Episode 5

    Aired 10/26/1955

    Ralph McKnight use his money to hire a detective to track for sworn payback several fellow soldiers who made his military service nearly unbearable but the outcome is something other than he imagined.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Jerome Wilson Story
    7.4/10(8)
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    #15 - The Jerome Wilson Story

    Season 2 Episode 8

    Aired 11/16/1955

    Jerome Wilson crashes the plane he has bought with some of his million while returning to an old life but loses his memory and cannot explain the large amount of cash he carries to the suspicious local sheriff.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Brian Hendricks Story
    7.4/10(8)
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    #16 - The Brian Hendricks Story

    Season 2 Episode 20

    Aired 2/8/1956

    Brian Hendricks framed for fraud by a partner hires a man to kill him so his family can receive funds from life insurance but learns the man he hired has subcontracted the task when Hendricks tries to cancel after receiving his million.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Rip Matson Story
    7.4/10(10)
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    #17 - The Rip Matson Story

    Season 2 Episode 24

    Aired 3/7/1956

    An abnormally fearless test pilot eschews depth in personal relationships until he meets a beautiful psychologist while she is conducting a psychological study.

    Director: Charles F. Haas

    Writer: Lee Erwin, Mary C. McCall, Jr.

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  • The Jean Griffith Story
    7.3/10(9)
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    #18 - The Jean Griffith Story

    Season 2 Episode 18

    Aired 1/25/1956

    A husband who is aggrieved over his wife's extreme jealousy concerning business meetings with women has to face his own feelings when the wife begins having similar meetings using money from her million to help close his business deal.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Olivia Grainger Story
    7.3/10(12)
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    #19 - The Olivia Grainger Story

    Season 2 Episode 36

    Aired 5/30/1956

    A dispassionate and extremely focused doctor tries to pay a disreputable mariner to forget his romance with her sister but feels her dispassion waning in the presence of the man while guilty over a betrayal of her sister.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Joe Seaton Story
    7.2/10(14)
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    #20 - The Joe Seaton Story

    Season 2 Episode 3

    Aired 10/12/1955

    A couple who have traded identify with a man who has done so to pay for medical care for his ailing wife plan to kill the man and his wife to keep the million dollars they have falsely accepted under the man's identity.

    Director: William A. Seiter

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Don Lewis Story
    7.2/10(8)
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    #21 - The Don Lewis Story

    Season 2 Episode 11

    Aired 12/7/1955

    A struggling newspaper ad salesman, who is deeply involved with a dishonest aspiring actress, takes a job as a chauffeur for the paraplegic heiress to seek upward mobility in business and develops profound feelings for the heiress.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Larry Evans Story
    7.2/10(8)
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    #22 - The Larry Evans Story

    Season 2 Episode 19

    Aired 2/1/1956

    Dr. Larry Evans learns that he has only six months to live. Then he gets his check for a million dollars.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Todd Burke Story
    7.2/10(9)
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    #23 - The Todd Burke Story

    Season 2 Episode 33

    Aired 5/9/1956

    A man's jealous, anxious and suspicious mother attempts to sabotage a new bride's simple appeal and the marriage.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Rita Keeley Story
    7.0/10(8)
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    #24 - The Rita Keeley Story

    Season 2 Episode 1

    Aired 9/28/1955

    A burlesque performer hounded by her brother's underworld pals uses her million to return to college in her hometown where she falls in love with a medical student but gossip about her past might wreck her happiness.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Robert Croft Story
    7.0/10(10)
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    #25 - The Robert Croft Story

    Season 2 Episode 2

    Aired 10/5/1955

    An antisocial writer of a lone successful novel unable to produce further work engages in self destructive and reckless behavior which intensifies with receipt of the million dollars until an accident changes his course.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Arthur Darner Story" is the best rated episode of "The Millionaire" season 2. It scored 9/10 based on 12 votes. Directed by Gerald Mayer and written by N/A, it aired on 2/15/1956. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "The Steve Carey Story".